Tim Miller (performance artist)

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Tim Miller (b. September 22, 1958, Pasadena, California) is an American performance artist, whose pieces frequently involve gay identity and immigration issues. He was one of the NEA Four, four performance artists whose National Endowment for the Arts grants were vetoed in 1990 by NEA chair John Frohnmayer.

He was born in Pasadena, but grew up in nearby Whittier.

"I was seventeen going on eighteen and I was desperate for love and dick. I searched everywhere for it. I hung around the Whittier Public Library, leaning suggestively against the stacks in the psychology section, waiting to be picked up by some graduate student. I leaned too far, once, and almost knocked over an entire row of bookshelves."(Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories, Patrick Merla(ed.) Avon Books. 1996)